Initial ideas for shot types- high grade shots

A crash zoom is a sudden rapid zoom in on a subject..it is generally a typical horror movie cliche. We could have used this particular technique for the part of the scene where Robyn- our young female protagonist, sees the elderly woman in her ghostly form behind her in the mirror. This would hence make the scene more shocking and sudden however we may encounter filming barriers with this technique as this may have not been a large enough zoom radius for the camera shot& technique to appear effective.



A deep focus is another camera technique that we want to use in our trailer- especially because this camera shot focuses on different depths and levels in a scene and is useful to give multiple characters prevalence which is relevant to our film with only two key characters for the main two roles. For the deep focus technique we can use premier elements 'blur and zoom' to create a similar effect. we would use this camera technique when the young girl is sleeping and the elderly woman appears from behind the cupboard



A shallow focus  could be subtly used in our movie making process to show the emotional expression on the young girls face when she sees the ghost as it would draw audience attention only to her.  a shallow focus is similar to a close up because it only has one singular focus and detail on one thing.



A pull focus was a specific transition/effect we wanted to use for our film titles rather than in the actual movie...this is because a pull focus tends to be used more in sci-fi films to appear to be artificial and fantasy.



We tried to keep to the rule of thirds in our movie opening and direct the audience attention to the prominent thirds of the screen, especially in the in initial opening trailer scenes where the elderly woman is to the far right of the screen in the corner.


The only time we cleverly aimed to use the direct centre of the scene and grid of thirds was when the girl was filmed in the bathroom mirror after seeing the elderly woman's ghost behind her as this is the central pinnacle point of action which we want to have ultimate prominence.